"important arrival," 1742, an extended sense of Advent "season before Christmas" (Old English), from Latin adventus "a coming, approach, arrival," in Church Latin "t [..]

start or beginning of something.

arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer" the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas Second Coming: (Chri [..]

n. The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.

/ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the PDP-10 by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game [..]

From the Latin word "adventus" or coming: A period of time before Christmas, beginning on the Sunday closest to NOV-30 when the birth of Jesus is recalled. Advent candles are often l [..]

Since the eighth century, the beginning or first season of the Christian year. Advent focuses on preparing for the coming of Christ. The term is derived from the Latin word adventus, meaning to come. [..]

(n) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)(n) the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas(n) (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the La [..]

Four weeks to commemorate the first and second coming of Christ; the first to redeem, and the second to judge the world. The season begins on St. Andrew’s Day, or the Sunday nearest to it. (L [..]

<computer games> /ad'vent/ The prototypical computer Adventure game, first implemented by Will Crowther for a CDC computer (probably the CDC 6600?) as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming. ADVENT was ported to the PDP-10, and expanded to the 350-point Classic puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods of the Stanford Artificial Inte [..]

1. The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday, the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). 2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ. 3. Coming; any important arrival; approach. "Death's dreadful advent." (Young) "Expecting [..]

Coming; coming to; approach; arrival. * Young *: Death's dreadful advent * '''1853''', , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted [..]

(Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ. (Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.